Java BufferedReader Read readFile(String filename, boolean skipEmptyLine)

Description

Read file to array of String.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
filename	String
skipEmptyLine	boolean

Exception

Parameter	Description
IOException	an exception

Return

String[]

Declaration

public static String[] readFile(String filename, boolean skipEmptyLine)
        throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.FileReader;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    /**//from w  ww. j av a2  s .c om
     * Read file to array of String.
     * 
     * @param filename
     *          String
     * @param skipEmptyLine
     *          boolean
     * @throws IOException
     * @return String[]
     */
    public static String[] readFile(String filename, boolean skipEmptyLine)
            throws IOException {
        final List<String> result = new ArrayList<String>();

        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
        try {
            String line;
            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                if (skipEmptyLine && line.trim().length() == 0) {
                    continue;
                }
                result.add(line);
            }
        } finally {
            br.close();
        }
        return (String[]) result.toArray(new String[0]);
    }

    /**
     * Read file to array of String.
     * 
     * @param filename
     *          String
     * @throws IOException
     * @return String[]
     */
    public static String[] readFile(String filename) throws IOException {
        return readFile(filename, false);
    }
}

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